Press Release Details

Contact:
Ellen Brotsky
415.541.9000 x356 ellenb@compasspoint.org

Nonprofit executives and board members don’t need to be finance experts, but they DO need to know what financial information to get, how to get it in a format they can understand and use, how to use that data to interpret the organization’s financial health, and how to set meaningful and realistic financial goals.

Financial Leadership for Nonprofit Executives is not another accounting manual. Written for nonprofit executives, Jeanne Bell Peters and Elizabeth Schaffer draw on their experience consulting to a wide range of nonprofits and provide a useful "red, yellow, green" evaluation tool.

"In an age of more scrutiny, more accountability, and more demands for services with inadequate funds" commented finance expert Peter Brinckerhoff (author, Nonprofit Stewardship), "this is an invaluable hands-on resource. Read it and then keep it close at hand."

Topics in Financial Leadership for Nonprofit Executives include:

• Finding the answers to the three most critical financial questions
• The "Dual Bottom Line" matrix for evaluating which programs to keep
• What financial goals to establish—and how to get the organization aligned with them
• A new approach to the annual budget
• A "Red, Yellow, Green" tool for assessing financial health, financial systems, the board’s oversight role, and accountability to the public

Financial Leadership for Nonprofit Executives was written by CompassPoint’s COO and finance consultant, Jeanne Bell Peters, and consultant Elizabeth Schaffer.

"We’re proud to have Financial Leadership for Nonprofit Executives in the CompassPoint-Wilder Book series," commented Jan Masaoka, CompassPoint’s executive director. "For many nonprofits, financial viability is the most urgent, most important issue to tackle right now. We’ve tested these tools on ourselves and with our consulting clients, and we know they work."

Financial Leadership for Nonprofit Executives can be ordered online at:
http://www.compasspoint.org/bookstore/ 

Order before June 1, 2005 at a special introductory price of only $26.95 (plus shipping and tax when applicable), a $6.00 saving off the suggested retail price of $32.95.

About CompassPoint Nonprofit Services

With offices in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, CompassPoint Nonprofit Services is a nonprofit consulting and training organization. Through a broad range of services including consulting, research, information dissemination, workshops, and conferences, CompassPoint strives to provide the best management tools and concepts to help nonprofits better serve their communities. For more information, visit http://www.compasspoint.org/ or call 415.541.9000 in San Francisco or 415.541.9505 in San Jose.